Improvement in plows



M. BUTLER.

Plow.

Patented Oct. 4, 1870.

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UNITED` STATES PATENT Q'FFICE.

MANLovn. BUTLER, f or, VERNON, *INDIANA IM PROV EM ENTl IN FLOWS.

.Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [085004, dated October 4, 1870.

fo all whom it maycmwem: laudsidet'l, which is of the common type,` but .Be it known that I, MANLovr; BUTLER, of has formed or is providednpon its inner face Vernon, in' thecountyof Jennings and State with a loop, C', for the purpose above stated.

of Indiana, have invented certain Improve- The mold-board D is a-straightorplain .plate ments in Plows; and I do hereby declare that' of meta-l, attached at its forward end -by a the fol-lowiiigisa-ft1ll, clear, and exact descripflange, d., to thelandside under the share, and, tion thereof, reference' being had -to lthe an-` leaving the landside'at the'pr'oper angle, ex# nexeddrawiugs, making part ot'this speciica'-4 tends with its full height orf-width to the'reartion, iu whichi l l to a point marked d', the distance ofwhich A Figure ll is a.v perspective View of a plow embodying. my improxjerneuts. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, seen from ,the land side. Fig. 3 is rear pointof the sli are, so that the lower edge of the niold-board,wliich is iu aboutthesame horizon'ta'l plane with the'cutting-edge ofthe share Fig. 4 is a bottom view of the plowshare, land and lthe soleof 'the landside, may run ou the side, and moldfboard. bottom 'of the furrow, for the'purpose of giving -The sameletters are used in all the figures steadiness to the plow. Beginning. at vthis in the designation of identical parts. n point da portion ofthe mold-hoardis cutaway, .This invention relates to plows for. turning.. as clearlyshownin,Figi-,thenpperportoncou'-- up thc soi-l; and it consists mainly in the coutinuingthe'i'equired distance to the rear-to turn struction and arrangement of the mold-board, over the slice ot' earth turned up'bytheshare. as will be more fully set forth-iu the following The mold-,board is arranged perpendicnlarly, description and claims. and this, together with its plain surface, will To enable those skilled iu the art to make be found to make an admirable form of moldnnd use .my invention, l will proceed to deboard for plowing iu'loani land. scribe its construction and operation. The handles E E .are lattached, one to the 1n the annexed drawings, A represents the landside and rear end of the 'plow-beam and beam of theplow, which isto be provided at its; the other to the rear side of the mold-board, forward end with'the o1(linarycle\'is, to which and thus, being connected. by cross-bars', ser-ve the draftanimals are hitched. The standard in a measure to add to the firmness andin# A', secured to the beam at about the point'utlexibility of all the dierent, parts constitutdicated,.terrninates at its lower end ina ten'on` ing the complete plow. to beinserted in a pocket or. loop, C', on the What I claim as my invention, anddesirc landside, which is irmlyheld by a tjefrod or to secure byLetters Patent, is-` bolt, A, to`such standard and beam,the head 1. The plain perpendicular moldboard- Dfof said rod hooking under the loop, while the when its lower edge'lis in-one'horzvontal plane rod passes up through an aperture in the beam and issec'ured by a tightening-nut in the man.- ner clearly shown in Fig. '2.1

The plowshare B may be Aconstructed sub, fstantiallyas shown in the drawings, or'n any other approved form, provided, always, that. lt's edge nearest the mold-board does not-touch the latter when the parts have been connected' together,'but leaves a suflcient space at that point orrline to. permit the earth, whichwould naturally clog iu the corner formed by aclose junction ofthe share and the-perpendicular l mold-board which Iemploy, to passdownward Witnesses: A between the two' intothe furrow, The share' JEP'LHA D. NEW, may be welded or otherwiseattached 'to the JACOB HENNINGEB.

ot thelandsde, substantially asset forth`.,

2. The combination of the inoldfboard D, and. share B, when-.arranged with reference tofeach tween the upper edge of tho-share' and 'the' face -of the mold-board', for the purpose'set forth.-

to.this specification inthepresence of twosub# scrbing witnesses.

y MANLGVE BUTLER-f lfrom the landslide' is slightlylessthan that ofthe ,A

with the. cuttin ged ge of the share' andthe sole lother', as described, .so as to leave 'aspacebe-- In testimony whereof -I have signed in yuam'e 

